Word: lick
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...wheels of succor turning day & night for 400,000 flood victims. And the flood was merely one more unexpected item in the torrent of events which proceeded to baptize the new term. One day John L. Lewis boldly demanded that the President help the C. I. 0. lick General Motors and was turned down (see p. 11). On another arrived Dr. Jose Carlos de Macedo Scares, onetime Brazilian Minister of Foreign Affairs, one of the President's South American friends, who had flown up to attend the inauguration but was delayed by storm in Santo Domingo. In quick succession...
...great satisfaction from the thoroughness with which the Italians mopped up Ethiopia. Some people & things of which Mr. Brisbane did not approve: atheists, "half-baked" college boys, gamblers, "brain-trusters." In his editorials Mr. Brisbane long affected to despise professional pugilism, liked to point out that "a gorilla could lick them all." Actually he frequently attended big fights, once had Sport Editor Danny Parker bring colored Fisticuffer Joe Louis around for a chat...
...popular, victorious Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week, with a double master stroke, he capitulated to the demands of Newspaper Guildsmen, who had kept his Seattle Post-Intelligencer closed since last August (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.) * and, on the principle of if-you-can't-lick-'em-hire-'em, put in as PI's new publisher Franklin Roosevelt's 36-year-old son-in-law John Boettiger. According to Associated Press, Mrs. Boettiger, the former Anna Roosevelt Ball, is slated to be women's editor of the PI. If Mrs. Boettiger takes...
Figuring that the chronometer cost $15, or at the rate of about 62 cents per hour, and considering the weight of its lick, it would appear that he has not done so badly for himself...
...spite of the fact that Marcy and Channing have run good races, and in spite of the fact that the others stuck pretty closely behind them, they still failed to lick Yale which will be entered in the I.C. 4 A competition. In other words the outlook is dark, so dark in fact that no one is doing a great deal of worrying about the affair one way or another...